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The iphone 5 Is Already On Sale

Or at least an iphone 5 is already on sale in China. Not that it’s a phone from Apple of course: so it’s not an iPhone. But it’s certainly a cheeky attempt at carving out something of a market for the firm, Goophone.

As you might guess from the name of the company it’s also nothing to do with iOS, the operating system instead being Google’s Android. I think it’s a pretty good mixture actually, near ripping off the name of one comany while definitely ripping off the design, look and feel, of another. And name of product of course.

As The Registers points out, the company has a habit of doing this. Their current offering, the Goophone Y5 4S bears a remarkable similarity to something designed in Cupertino as well. Clearly there’s a little niche here that’s worth exploiting.

Two things occur: the first being that while we do know there’s about to be a new iPhone we don’t actually know yet what it’s going to be called. Could be the iPhone 5, could be “new iPhone” Could be the 4X for all we know so far.

The second is that this is an insight into just how far China has to go in defending intellectual property. I’ve long argued that such protection isn’t going to come about as a result of anything that foreigners do. Rather, once Chinese firms are creating such IP that they want to protect then protection there will be. And not until then either.

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Regarding the unemployment, it seems to me that the big companies are here in the state are using the excuse of taxes as a reason for not creating jobs. Apple market share will soon approach the one trillion dollar with zero debt. Dose any one really think that no matter who we elect, apple will stop manufacturing its product in China? If they do that I promise you that apple share would tank because the cost will be huge if they shifting their operation to the state. Wall Street is greedy and would use any excuss to make profit and cut cost using any means to do so. Both Romney and Obama have very poor record when in comes to dealing with China. I am for one are sure that who ever we elect nither Obama or Romney will change how we deal with China. Both have encouraged outsourcing , obama as a president and Romney during his years at Bain capital. WE need a president and a congress who are able to renegotiate our dealing with China, stand up to major corporations and force them to keep the jobs here in The U.S. Sadly the two are too scared to upset the Chinese and our only hope is that we as the people take a stand and support companies, especially small businesses which employ Americans. We underestimate our collective powers as consumers and have this defeatist attitude that “that is the way it is and we want what is cheaper”. We line for Apple products and soon we will do the same once the iPhone 5 is released knowing fully that it is built in China, yet we complain about the job situation. Let us buy American, support American and send a message to both parties and Wall Street that we had enough of destroying the prospect of our children future in getting jobs here in The U.S. When corporation is allowed to mass a trillion dollar and become powerful enough to “own” politicians, then there is something fundamentally wrong with the system. IT is sad but when it comes to the issue of unemployment, both candidates will talk tough, but in reality the situation will remain the same. I know that what I wrote won’t be popular with people supporting the two parties, but it is the sad reality. Obama or Romney = unemployment.

IP is not the biggest problem for Chinese companies. Here in Brazil, there is a slang, “Xing Ling”, meaning cheap Chinese eletronics generally bought from unauthorized dealers. People that buys these products usually knows that they are going to pay less for less quality and they know that they are taking a huge risk. And yes, specially if you are a native Portuguese speaker “Xing Ling” sounds allmost as racist.

Huawei surely loses markets in the Western World due to this perception, and any company with a Chinese name will have to fight this perception. Chinese brandes needs to be known for something more than cheap and low quality products. I know that Lenovo, Huawei and Chery can produce good products, but all these cheap generic brands present a problem for the “Made and Designed in China” brand.

So about your article first. I am pretty disappointed that there’s a 50 year old writing articles about a goophone and calling it an i phone 5. I think you are damaging Forbes credibility by even having this article on the website. I can understand the desperate need to have your article read but having a false tittle and initial paragraph that made me realize i should’ve never clicked on this stupidity. Also what upset me more is that its the first article that pops up on Yahoo as a top search for “Iphone 5″. Americans are not at all interested in what china is making or selling as far as the iphone 5 knock off goes. You can go to flee market here in Chicago and find iphone knock offs for 50 bucks. These phones can be hacked to put any OS, whether iOS or Android. I’m looking for a job, so if Forbes need some actual technological information please don’t hesitate to contact me. I’m the guy that people come to when they need their phone hacked, jail broken and unlocked when there’s no resolution to heir phone. I don’t do it for the money i do it for pleasure and for free of cost. Plus it puts a big hole in local phone sellers pockets that are only trying to scam people at the mall. I’m 28, live in Chicago and willing to move. I have a bachelors in Biological Sciences if that helps.